Why Hospitals Must Rethink Cyber Resilience

John Riggi of the AHA and Josh Howell of Rubrik on Improving Attack Recovery Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • May 11, 2026 22 Minutes

Hospitals face relentless ransomware attacks that threaten patient safety and operations. More than ever, cyber teams need to strengthen their resilience, with clinical continuity, immutable secure backups and coordinated recovery as critical strategies in a rapidly evolving threat landscape, said John Riggi of the American Hospital Association and Josh Howell of Rubrik.

"In this increasingly digitally complex, digitally interdependent ecosystem that healthcare operates in, there is no way for us to 100% prevent attacks and eliminate all the vulnerabilities which expose us to attacks," said Riggi, national advisor for cybersecurity and risk at the AHA.

The AHA is partnering with security firm Rubrik, as well as various other organizations, such as ...